Who...?
David Darlington is an audio producer, sound engineer, writer and musician - among other things - with clients including RNIB Talking Books, Rush Forth Media, War Child, Academy Films, Big Finish Productions, AudioGO/BBC Audiobooks, BBCi, UK Style, Covert Productions, Revelation Films, Agincourt Productions, Panini, Visual Imagination and more.
David is the director of small-press audio production company What Noise Productions, and produces the audio transcription of the Marks and Spencer in-store magazine YourM&S.
David is a producer at RNIB Talking Books, producing, directing and editing accessible audio productions of diverse works - a recent production being Simon Garfield's The Wrestling, read by Alex Lowe with contributions from the author himself. David is also responsible for recording, compiling, editing and encoding the popular entrepreneurial podcast Mind Your Own Business and contributes to the ongoing 'narrated soundtracks' series of Doctor Who releases from AudioGO. He has been a regular and significant contributor to various series from the audio drama and talking book production company Big Finish Productions for over a decade, and is a member of the Audio Engineering Society, and, until its sad dissolution, of the Audiobook Publishing Association.
David has recently produced a number of titles for Audible, publisher of downloadable audiobooks. Available now: The Dark Tourist by Dom Joly; How To Save An Hour Every Day Michael Heppell; I Am The Market by Luca Rastello; Blue Monday by Nicci French.
In addition to talking book and audio drama and documentary work, David has worked on several music video projects including Warriors' Dance by the Prodigy, The Night Sky (promo and accompanying documentary pieces) by Keane and the first promotional video podcasts by Artmagic. Also: and a number of short movies, including Break-In, Sunday, My Fifteen Minutes and the award-winning Speechless. He has undertaken forensic sound restoration, sound editing, mixing and music composition work on various DVD projects for 2|entertain, Revelation Films and Covert Productions (for Tenth Planet). Fuller details of all such work available on request.
A former version of this site showcased a lot of work first published in Panini UK's Doctor Who Magazine; much of that has been taken offline as of limited widespread interest, but the Script Doctors series of interviews with the writers for the returning show's first three seasons remains available.
Previously unpublished material...
Rona Munro - the writer of the final story in the classic Doctor Who series run, Survival - has rarely been interviewed on the subject of Doctor Who and her involvement in it, despite her high profile in other spheres including successful, lauded and award-winning work in the theatre and in cinema. However, David obtained an interview with Rona in 2007 and that interview is now online at this site. Also up here now is a full version of an interview conducted with Murray Gold on the occasion of his Doctor Who Proms concert in the summer of 2008.
